Hurricane Gonzalo: A Fabian Redo?

Submitted by Steve on Fri, 10/17/2014 - 08:41

As I
write this, hurricane Gonzalo is 150 miles SSW of Bermuda. Its winds have
weakened a bit to 125 MPH with a central pressure of 947 mb. It appears to be shaping up similar to
hurricane Fabian in 2003. Fabian passed
Bermuda with sustained winds of 115 MPH and a central pressure of 950 mb.

I
had previously made this storm surge simulation at Bermuda for Fabian.

Unlike
many continental or Caribbean locations, Bermuda is basically an isolated
mountain in the ocean lacking spatially extensive shallow water shelves
offshore. Storm surge you know, results
from a ‘banking up’ of water against the coast. The slope of the bank-up is
very slight, needing a 10 km reach of shallow water offshore to build 1 m of
surge. Bermuda lacks such conditions at least on three sides, so storm surge finds it a difficult place to form.
Moreover Bermuda is streamlined like a sports car. Surge tries to bank-up against it, but water just slips around.
The Fabian simulation produced a maximum surge of about 1.2 m. My guess
is that Gonzalo will do the same.

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Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
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